Haha yeah, this thing will need to live in the snow, for sure. RIP my power bill.

I meant Lance

I am a tad worried that this is the first thing you are going to build. You should probably get one a really basic machine just to practice on first?

I can see it now, you trying to work it all out whilst watching guides on youtube. "So the heatsink goes on the CPU like this?" *Crunch*

Although saying that, A few years back, probably around the time, I made that Victorian time travel film for the NP2k film festival. My computer just kept turning itself off. Turned out the heatsink had stopped working and I popped down to Maplin and bought a replacement and some thermal paste and just swapped it out. If I'd known exactly what I was doing I probably wouldn't have dared try.

Computers are not as sensitive as people seem to think, most of your connections are pretty comprehensive. Be wary of static, get yourself a static band if you're really nervous or live in a high natural static environment: https://www.amazon.com/Zitrades-Static- ... B009Z9SLTE , and remember that if it doesn't fit, don't force it...for the most part. Your CPU installation is different from past CPU installations so you might want to look that up if you haven't already, and the liquid cooling has a mount that might need to be placed when installing the motherboard if your case doesn't allow access to the back side of the MB. Most do these days.

I've built several PCs in my day, although not recently. I've been rocking the same laptop for many years now.

My only real screwup was bricking a $1000 dollar CPU once though. That was a bummer. I stared at it in disbelief for days before I finally had to admit it. It was a dark time.

OUCH. That's rough.

From what I've seen about this CPU in particular, it's much more modular and not as fussy about being installed than the CPU's I've seen in the past. Watching my college roommate brick a CPU when he fucked up a soldered connection, well, I won't have to do any of that shit.

The last of the parts for this beast arrive Tuesday. I've got the MoBo, CPU, SSD, CPU cooling unit and Case already. Waiting on the GPU, power supply and RAM to be delivered in the mail. Once all that shit arrives, I'll spend a good afternoon at Fry's, buying a wealth of case fans, etc. Oh, and I've got the static-wristband-thing already. Just trying not to build up any static from all the excitement of wanting to build this thing.

It'll never REALLY be complete, however, until I can afford the 2nd GPU and 2x 2 TB NVMe cards (to configure the RAID0 array). *drool*

Mostly built. Still a fuck-ton of cables to attach to shit. A lot of instructions to read to make sure everything is plugged in right.

Then you get to install the OS, update the OS, update Bios and drivers, and start loading apps... Assuming your hardware installation passes the "smoke test" (first power on).

I have built two rigs in one day a couple of times. The hardware took a couple of hours for the pair each time, but the software took the better part of the day to get all loaded and updated. The old windows patch and update marathon. Had a few Ubuntu set ups as well, much faster OS install but finding and mounting everything needed to run the programs I wanted and fumbling around took a bit.

Been running the windows install and bios shit for the better part of an hour and the machine is still running. Not everything is working as expected. Three of my fans aren't moving, so I gotta figure out why (they're all attached to an expansion card, but there's another fan attached to the same card that's working fine, sooooo...). I'll dig into that tomorrow. In the mean time, there's still 6 fans running, as well as the 2 fans attached to my CPU's liquid cooling heatsink. Should be fine, even without those three fans, but I'd rather it run cooler than just cool.

hahah, yes... maybe yall could teach me some cable management. Need to get some velcro ties or something, because I feel like every time I use the zip-ties, I end up needing to remove a cable to move a hard drive or something.